Adolescent Need to Know About Cigarettes Content

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10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.047How to use a DOI?

Keywords

adolescent, cigarettes content, smoker

Abstract

Adolescents smokers are increase in prevalence. This is because the characteristics of adolescents tend to try new things which are populer among peer group without knowing the content of cigarettes and it’s effects to their health. This study aimed to identify the knowledge possessed by adolescents related to cigarette content. The crossectional study design was used to see the description of adolescent knowledge in Palembang about cigarette content. The sample was 100 teenagers from 4 high schools in Palembang taken using the cluster random sampling method. One third of the total teenagers got information related to cigarette content from the internet and teachers at school and more than three-fifths of respondents had parents and friends who smoke. Most of adolescents didn’t know that hydrogen cyanide, butane, nepheline, hygrazine and arsenic were ingredients contained in cigarettes. Meanwhile, 10% of respondents mentioned that ammonia was not included in the cigarette content. Adolescents need to get sufficient and accurate access of information about the content of cigarettes to prevent an increase in the number of adolescents smokers.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Fenny Etrawati
AU  - Yeni
AU  - Widya Lionita
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/06/19
TI  - Adolescent Need to Know About Cigarettes Content
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Sriwijaya International Conference of Public Health (SICPH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 338
EP  - 341
SN  - 2468-5739
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.047
DO  - 10.2991/ahsr.k.200612.047
ID  - Etrawati2020
ER  -